I can actually remember the first book of the genre that I got. It was called Battle Blade Warrior and it was part of a series of adventure books called Fighting Fantasy. I got the book when I was like 8 our something, and I remember that it cost six bucks.
Soon I had myself a huge collection of these books, and I would spend hours just making my way through them with a dice and the little charts they had on the back with points and stats and shizz. These books also had the maddest covers and awesome illustrations on the inside. I used to burn out pencils just trying to recreate them.
In fact Steve Jackson, one of the guys who wrote the books, was probably my first favorite author. I kept reading his work till I was about 14 or something, and once I even slapped a kid because he saw that I was reading Jackson's Troll Tooth Wars and he told me the ending just to piss me off.
Yeah… I was hardcore.
The reason all this comes to mind is because today I came across a little gem of a book called “Zombocalypse Now.”
It’s a crazy adventure book, in the vein of those old “Choose your own adventure” books… and bloody hell that’s a rabbit with a bloody chainsaw, surrounded by zombies.
It practically screams bleeding “Awesome”
The zombie apocalypse has never been this much fun.
Now if that isn’t a write up for a good time… I don’t know what is. You can check out a little excerpt from the book HERE.
What makes me sad though is that currently there are a few competitions running around online that lets you win yourself a copy of the book. Sadly these competitions aren’t open to folks from Fiji :(
I’ll see if I can order myself a copy from one of our local book stores…
Cool thing is that this book is boasting 112 different endings… so I won’t need to be slapping anybody until I get my copy.
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